Chart Control in Visual Studio 2. Web and Windows ExplainedIn this article we are going to see how to use the new charting control with Visual Studio 2. Chart controls are introduced with Visual Studio 2. Service Pack 1. Chart controls provide a rich user interface for showing the numbers in a very graphical format that most end users are eager to see. Prior to chart controls, developers needed to use third party tools, some open source libraries or use HTML and GDI to draw some graphical image as a chart for the end users which requires more user code and time consuming. Using Excel to Create an XBar R Chart 1. Determine the subgroup average. To do this, go to an open cell to the right of your data. Calculate the subgroup. I am looking for a very simple WPF chart which should have a 2D graph and should have pan and zoom facilities. Earlier this month September 2017, in the new version of Power BI Desktop, a new type of chart announced Ribbon Chart. The very first look and feel of this chart. Microsoft as introduced this control with a strong awareness of the present scenario of showing the data in an image rather than a grid view or some data viewer controls. The Chart control was introduced in late September 2. Visual Studio 2. 00. In Visual Studio 2. Microsoft provided the control in built which makes it much easier for developers to use the control. This control can be used in both Windows and web applications to show the rich user data in a good graphical format. The Chart control offers a wide variety of choices to choose the best format required by the end users to view the data. Some of the types of charts available with the control are as follows PIE Chart, LINE Chart, BAR Chart, BUBBLE Chart, PYRAMID Chart etc. Microsoft has provided around 3. Visual Studio. Also the control provides most of the features required to make the chart more attractive, like providing lines, labels, trend lines etc. The controls API provides an option to make the sorting filter, grouping, searching, merging, splitting and exporting to the required format making the control more robust for the developers to use it for most requirements. In this article we will see about using the Chart control in both Visual Studio 2. Visual Studio 2. 01. Also we will see some good examples of using this control in a Web application and a Windows application to see how flexible the control is used. Microsoft has not provided any Wizard to customize the data chart by giving the data source, customizing the size, look and color of the data, all these things need to be handled by the developer to bind and use the required data format as such. Since Microsoft provides this chart as a free control along with the Visual Studio, developers have no need to think much about the third parties or the open source tools for charting with the application which gives an advantage to go over this control and use it wherever required. Here we will see how to download, install and use this control in both Visual Studio 2. Visual Studio 2. 01. Since Visual Studio 2. VS 2. 00. 8 version. Downloading Installing for Visual Studio 2. The Microsoft Chart control was released as a standalone application with the Visual Studio 2. Service Pack 1. In order to use this control in VS 2. Microsoft URL See following for the list of downloads with URL. Microsoft Visual Studio 2. Chart Controls Add on. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2. Chart Controls Add on helps to add the control to the toolbox and gives the intellisense support for the chart application. The Microsoft Chart control samples are a number of samples on both Windows and web applications that provide a very good start for the beginners to start and use the control. The. Microsoft Chart control is the mandatory download remaining 2 things are for our reference purpose which helps to build a very good chart application. Once you downloaded these software from the links provided we need to install and set up the development environment in order to start developing a charting application. We will see in detail how to install and configure the above 3 downloads one by one. Microsoft Chart Control Installation Click on the link above to open the window as shown in the following screen. Click on download Mschart. Now double click on the Mschart. When we install this exe the binaries will be placed in the Global Assembly Cache GAC and also will be placed in the Program. FilesMicrosoft Chart ControlsAssemblies. Since the files are placed in the GAC we can use it globally without placing the DLLs in each and every BIN folder. When we publish the project in the server there will be no need to install the exe instead we can use the binaries moved to the publish bin folder. Once you double click the Mschart. Microsoft Chart Control Bar Chart Example' title='Microsoft Chart Control Bar Chart Example' />It shows that we need the prerequisite of. Net Framework 3. 5 with SP1. Canada Zip Codes List By City. Clock Software For Xp'>Clock Software For Xp. Click Next to proceed further. Click on the license agreement to proceed further as shown in screen below. The installation process will start and components will be installed one by one and we will see the progress as shown in the screen below. Microsoft Chart Control Bar Chart Example' title='Microsoft Chart Control Bar Chart Example' />Once the installation is completed we will see the final message as shown below which indicates that the software has been installed successfully. We can find the Chart control in the toolbox as shown in the screen below. Now we are ready with the development environment where we have the chart control installed and tested completely. These are the above steps we need to follow for setting up a development environment for using the Chart Control with Visual Studio 2. As I said earlier since Visual Studio 2. Visual Studio 2. 01. Now we will see some samples of using the different charts available. Net Framework 4. 0 developers can omit the steps which we are done for the downloading and installation process since the control is also included in the latest framework. Now let us jump start to see the example of using this chart control. We have downloaded some samples from the MSDN archive 3rd download. Let us see the samples by opening the project and running it. We need to navigate to where we downloaded the samples and open the solution as shown in the screen below It will open the solution with pre loaded samples as shown in the screen below Now we will build the solution and execute the project to see the result. To do this press F5 you will see the output in IE as shown in the screen below. When its building the project we will see the various chart types build as shown in the screen below. The left side menu contains the different types of charts and for binding data and some common features required to be used for developing the application as shown in the following screen Each chart type is given with a tree view menu which has different types inside it like with normal chart view, 3. D chart view and some other properties which developer needs to take care as per their requirements. Upon selecting each chart the sample will be opened in the right side portion with the code as well for C and VB. Net as shown in the following screen With this help of data and the code, developers can develop a chart with ease. YWOWlhn7nHY/UI3KFkSSbWI/AAAAAAAACJQ/F8cE4AE9wDQ/s1600/ExtJs%2BBar%2BChart%2BExample%2Busing%2BJava%2BServlet.png' alt='Microsoft Chart Control Bar Chart Example' title='Microsoft Chart Control Bar Chart Example' />Now we will create an application and develop our own chart applications for a windows and a web application. Chart Control in Web Application In this section we are going to see how to use the chart control in a web application. We are going to create a new application in C and name it Web. Explode or expand a pie chart. Pull the whole pie apart. The quickest way to pull all of the slices out of the pie chart, is to click the pie chart and then drag away from the center of the chart. To more precisely control the expansion, follow the steps below. Right click the pie chart and then click Format Data Series. Drag the Pie Explosion slider to increase the separation, or type a number in the percentage box. Tip  You can also give your pie chart a different perspective by Rotate a chart. Draw attention to small slices in a pie of pie or bar of pie chart. Pie of pie and bar of pie charts make small slices of a pie chart easier to see. These chart types separate the smaller slices from the main pie chart and display them in a secondary pie or stacked bar chart. In the example below, a pie of pie chart adds a secondary pie to show the 3 smallest slices. Compare beforea normal pie chart and afterthe pie of pie chart. If you dont indicate how many data points should appear in the secondary pie or stack, the chart will automatically include the three smallestin this example, 3, 3, and 4. Right click the chart and then click Change Series Chart Type. Click Pie, and then click Pie of Pie or Bar of Pie. To change what displays in the secondary pie, click the piece of pie, youre expanding and then in the Format Data Series pane, in the Split Series By box, click the type of data to display in the secondary chart. To change how many data points appear in the secondary chart, you have two options If youre splitting the series by position, in the Values in second plot box, enter the number of positions you want such as 3 if you want the 3 smallest. If youre splitting the series by value or percent value, in the Values less than box, type a different number. In the example above with 3, 3, and 4, you might enter 5. Notes The left chart is always the main chart, and the secondary chart is always to its right. You cant rearrange them. Connector lines are added automatically. You can remove them or change the connector styles. In Excel, the percentages in the data labels may be rounded. If so, they wont add up to 1. To fix this, change the number of decimal places specified for percentages on the Number tab of the Format Cells box Home tab, Number group, Dialog Box Launcher. More about pie charts. Add a pie chart. Add or remove data in a pie chart. Ezmix 2 Full. Create and save a template in Power. Point. Top of Page.